Dr Lua Perimal-Lewis

Lua Perimal-Lewis is an Associate Professor at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, and was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Flinders Digital Health Research Centre as well as a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health. Her research focuses on Digital Health Supporting Our Ageing Society, translating data-driven insights into practical, equitable healthcare solutions. She has led the Flinders Assistant for Memory Enhancement (FAME) study and coordinated the Dementia and Aged Care Services project.

Lua’s expertise spans Digital Health, Health Informatics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Data Science, Hospital Patient Flow Process Mining, and Modelling and Simulation. She currently leads a systematic review team at the Centre of Evidence-Based Education & Arts Therapies (JBI-affiliated) and has designed and implemented health intervention pilots and clinical feasibility studies. Her skills include quantitative and qualitative data analysis, patient-flow modelling, and research project management, alongside supervising HDR students and mentoring early-career researchers.

Her work emphasises collaborative, interdisciplinary, and translational research, including international partnerships, and addresses socioeconomic inequalities in digital health. She has experience working with diverse populations, including adolescents (Uprite project), older adults, and individuals with early-onset Parkinson’s disease, applying her research to deliver meaningful, evidence-based digital health solutions.